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V. A. REEVES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VIRGIL A. REEVES, OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

MEASURING-VESSEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,276, dated October 11, 1887.

Application filed June 27, 1587. Serial No. 242.667. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VIRGIL A. REEVES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Worth, in the county of Tarrant and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring-Vessels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to measuring-vessels specially adapted for molasses or other heavy sirups; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of the vessel; and Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sections through the extension-piece and the cap, respectively.

A is the main portion of the vessel, in which the liquid is measured, provided with the handle a.

B is a funnel provided with the spout b and secured to the top of vessel A, at right angles 'to the same.

0 is a lid provided with the thumb-piece c and pivoted to the handle a.

D is the opening, which is common to both the vessel and the funnel, and which is covered by the said lid. A small bead, d, is formed around the opening D to strengthen it, and the flange of the lid fits down over this and forms a tightjoint.

The spout bis crimped, and E is a correspondingly-crimped tapering extension-piece, which may be slipped over the end of the spout, so that the liquid may be poured into a bottle or other receptacle having a very small neck.

F is the cap, which is also crimped and tapering, and will fit over either the spout or the extension-piece.

G are short legs under the vessel A, which prevent it from accumulating sirup, sawdust, and other rubbish, with which it otherwise would unavoidably be often brought into contact.

When the vessel is standing on its feet and the cap is on the spout and the lid down. no flies can get into it, and all the sirup which adheres to the inside of the funnel will drain back into the vessel A.

What I claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a measuring-vessel provided with a funnel projecting at right angles from the top of it, and a hinged lid wholly covering the opening to the funnel and to the vessel, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 2. As a new article of manufacture, a measuring-vessel provided with a funnel projecting at right angles from the top of it, and having a crimped tapering spout, the legs G and handle a,secu red to the vessel, the lid pivotally connected to the handle and wholly covering the opening D, which is common to both the vessel and the funnel, and the extension-piece and the cap for fitting over the end of the spout, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

v. A. REEVES.

WVitnesses:

O. L. WHITE, J NO. D. McGLURE. 

